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Trump's reign of terror didn't start with him. The G.W. Bush-Cheney "war on terror" prepared Americans to accept cruelty as the price of an illusory safety. My latest from Tomdispatch.com www.juancole.com/.../harvests....

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"Extraordinary rendition" -- one description of what is happening to Kilmar Abrego García did not start with Donald Trump. Bush, Cheney, & Co. laid the groundwork. But it continues under Trump. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

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This is Trump “facilitating” the return of Abrego Garcia thanks to the vague SCOTUS order.

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This is what happens when you capitulate to Trump. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Following Project 2025's lead, Trump administration will use the college-accreditation process to dictate academic content at US colleges and universities. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Teachers and residents come together to free three children and their mother from the clutches of ICE -- just a few miles from Homan's hometown. This is what solidarity looks like.https://wapo.st/4lu4Vr6

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BREAKING: We are suing the Trump admin on behalf of our members for unlawfully cutting off $400 million in federal funding for crucial public health research to force Columbia University to surrender its academic independence. Stay Tuned.

submitted 49 days ago • 16 comments

couldn't let a Palestine win a Oscars go unpunished

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New piece from Tomdispatch.com, here via Juan Cole's indispensable Informedcomment.com. www.juancole.com/2025/03/demo...

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Your tax dollars at work: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/w...

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I'll be on the Morning Show on KPFA.org (94.1 FM) tomorrow, Sunday, 2/9, at 10:00 a.m. Conversation (and call-ins) will focus on the auto-golpe (self-coup) we're seeing unfold.

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We won't quite know where we are until they start ignoring court decisions. That's the final breaking point.

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Looks like ICE is gaming Google to make it look like raids that happened years ago are recent. The Guardian shows that ICE has updated old press releases with a 1/24/25 post date. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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As the coup continues, I have a new piece out today from Tomdispatch. tomdispatch.com/king-donald/

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Joe Biden did something right; www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Here's a new piece I wrote for Tomdispatch.com: www.commondreams.org/opinion/femi...

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Some new towels hot off the loom

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Rebecca Gordon from So here. I write books about torture and play with yarn (knitting, spinning, weaving). Now working on a lesbian novel of manners and writing pieces for Tomdispatch.com. Latest is out today, on the life and crimes of Henry Kissinger at 100: www.laprogressive.com/foreign-poli...

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