Alec Karakatsanis

founder, Civil Rights Corps (npub1fq9…xfeu)
civil rights lawyer
author of usual cruelty (2019) and
copaganda (2025)

views here are my own, not civil rights corps
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Last Notes

2026-07-15 15:28:00 UTC

One of the best things you can do for any well-meaning person in your life who consumes a lot of news is to have them listen to 5 episodes—virtually any will do—of this exceptional podcast. It will change their perspective and make it easier to talk to them.
https://bird.makeup/users/citationspod/statuses/2077387353660809565
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2026-04-22 23:44:35 UTC

Everyone should read what the Israeli military did to journalist Amal Khalil today in this minute-by-minute account as the international community watched in horror. First the text messages threatening her then trapping her and a photographer in a house then bombing them then firing on international rescue crews, all with the world watching in real time. There are no words left for the horrors that U.S. political leaders are enabling.
https://bird.makeup/users/halajaber/statuses/2046967750669529137
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2026-01-08 16:25:09 UTC

The coverage of the ICE execution by PBS has been shameful. It's a case study in copaganda. They brought on Obama's former ICE director to distract from core issues, sow confusion about whether what happened was justified, and promote more $$ for police/ICE "training" industry.
https://bird.makeup/users/equalityalec/statuses/2009000566526267464
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2026-01-07 20:33:55 UTC

Anyone who has read Copaganda knows that we are in the crucial early moments of virality after an extra-judicial police murder. It's extremely important for ICE that the media plays along with the idea that what happened is contested and there are multiple perspectives.

2025-07-25 01:22:10 UTC

Someone asked me why Democrats are now coming out vaguely against starvation. People who celebrated and funded this inevitable result every step of the way are issuing statements now in a futile attempt to distort how history judges their unforgivable crimes against humanity.
https://bird.makeup/users/schwarz/statuses/1948463202905296898
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