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"The 50-page report [...] contains testimony from 11 women who either accuse Trump of rape or sexual assault or say that they had been offered to Trump for sex by Epstein or Ghislaine." "Five women said that Trump raped or assaulted them while Epstein was present." #USA #Trafficking #SexualViolence

"Fourteen remaining Scotiabank protestors are exiting the courts after more than two years." "Letting us off with a noise ticket [...] exposes the weakness of the Crown's case." #Quebec #Canada #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Banking #Weapons #Military #Courts #Genocide

"Worker-student unity." "The mobilization that led to this election began in the wake of a tragedy." "University occupations, student assemblies, and mass demonstrations ultimately called the entire regime into question." #Serbia #EU #Russia #Ukraine #Voting #Education #Labour #Protest

"[P]ortrait of a territory being transformed." "[F]ragmented landscape, divided by checkpoints, settlements, and closed military zones, has become increasingly difficult for Palestinians to navigate, let alone inhabit." #WestBank #Palestine #Israel #Transportation #Military #EthnicCleansing

"Garrett Langley, the CEO of automatic license plate reader company Flock, told an audience of police chiefs at a private police conference Sunday that anti-Flock protests around the country are not real, according to leaked audio." #USA #Policing #Surveillance #Technology #Transportation

"The man in blue is screaming commands, provoking my trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder." "To him, this is procedure. Policy. Control. To my body, it is a return." "Prison does not create trauma in a vacuum. It activates it." #USA #Incarceration #Surveillance #FamilyViolence #SexualViolence

"How did my prison doctor miss a tumor the size of a doll's head on my ultrasound?" "Still, my life force remains. I won't let them steal it in the time I have left." "I want to be remembered as a spontaneous shimmering light, dancing and free." #USA #Incarceration #Food #Healthcare #DeathPenalty

"New York county jails billed US Immigration and Customs Enforcement around $20 million for detaining thousands of immigrants for the agency since early last year." #NewYork #USA #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

"40 Syrians who remain in Israel after a forcible transfer across state borders, considered a war crime under the Geneva Convention." "They were initially taken for two hours. Those two hours have turned into a year and a month." #Israel #Syria #Labour #Incarceration #EthnicCleansing

"[A]s current laws dictate, the public can expect to almost never see the recordings." "Privacy laws in Canada are very strict and they're federal [...] and coast to coast, they largely prohibit the release of body-worn camera footage." #Quebec #Canada #AI #Policing #Technology #Surveillance

"Pentagon recorded 41 domestic abuse-related homicides committed by service members." "The Intercept identified nearly twice as many." "[I]ntimate partner violence [...] was at least four times higher than the civilian rate." #USA #Military #Suicide #SexualViolence #DomesticViolence

Major elections are ongoing across the United States, Canada, Serbia, Brazil, and Israel. This feed compiles every election-related article archived by Harms Committed. Instead of breaking news, it serves as an educational resource to help you understand how each election relates to state violence.

"Lula may have won the presidency, but the Far Right remains strong in Congress, in state governments, and within institutions." "This means the social force that brought about the end of the 6×1 schedule and defeated Flávio must remain mobilized." #Brazil #Voting #Labour

"In his nearly four years as a state senator, he has taken steps to strip authority from local officials." "[H]e co-sponsored a law that voided the Memphis City Council's ban on police stops for minor traffic infractions." #Tennessee #USA #Voting #Policing #Incarceration #Bail #DeathPenalty

"[C]onsequences of Canadian mining investment abroad." "Mining projects such as Pueblo Viejo and Neita can threaten subsistence agriculture and drive people off their land, deepening poverty and social instability." #Canada #DominicanRepublic #Haiti #Water #Climate #Mining

"[S]tate prioritizes Iowa's meat industry, an economic engine that generates tens of billions of dollars [...] over enforcing the Clean Water Act." "Residents have been forced to take on the work of environmental protection because the state hasn't." #Iowa #USA #Animals #Water #Air #Climate #Courts

"US drinking water could contain double the PFAS levels currently reported by regulators." "Researchers analyzed more than 1.8 million PFAS measurement records from the EPA's January 2026 release of monitoring data from water systems across the country." #USA #Water

"Voters in seven states this fall will weigh more than half a dozen ballot initiatives with direct bearings on LGBTQ+ people — disproportionately on transgender youth." #Arizona #Colorado #Missouri #Nebraska #Vermont #Virginia #Washington #USA #Healthcare #Sports #Marriage #Voting #Courts

"This November, voters will decide the fate of abortion rights in four states." "Three of those states — Idaho, Nevada, and Virginia — have initiatives that would protect abortion rights." #Missouri #Idaho #Virginia #Nevada #USA #Voting #Healthcare

DHS "deployed federal agents in multiple states to knock on doors and demand voters verify their identities." "[F]ederal judge in California ruled the DHS initiative violates the Voting Rights Act and ordered federal agents to halt." #California #USA #Courts #Voting #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

"[S]iege, suffocation, and war." "Although the leading parties may have different ideas and methods, their policies ultimately serve the same goal: destroying Gaza and reshaping its reality and culture to give it an Israeli character." #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Aid #Food #Voting #Genocide

"Dominican government adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance working definition of antisemitism." "[E]quating opposition to Israeli apartheid and Zionist colonialism with antisemitism." #DominicanRepublic #Israel #Gaza #Palestine #USA #Venezuela #Apartheid #Slavery #Genocide

"[T]his little settlement in Petén, the northernmost department of Guatemala, has long been one of global conservation's success stories." "With USAID's retreat and peak fire season only months away, they face an increasingly uncertain future." #Guatemala #USA #Aid #Forests #Climate

"There's a lack of resources. Petrol prices are rising too. There are too many problems in France. It's all hard. There are no work-study placements. There are no jobs, there is nothing. We're fed up." #France #Protest #Policing #FossilFuels #Education