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Good morning, America. Remember Kent State. #ICE #NationalGuard #LA #authoritarianism #itcanhappenhere

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Remember in Margin Call (2011), when faced with the data, they decided to close up shop and bail on the whole subprime mortgage portfolio? They did so to survive. We need to bail on our current relationship to the planetary ecosystem in order to survive. #sustainability www.earth.com/news/major-e...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

I think I've found my favourite Bible verse. Malachi 1:3. "And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness." ~ God, The Bible. Or, "And I hated the proudly ignorant, and laid their mountains and heritage waste for the “dragons of the wilderness.”

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

World leaders are lining up to say, FINALLY, that ISRAEL has gone too far. That the genocide must be addressed. Let's make with the part that the system demands you protect your right to do EXACTLY the same thing —

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

I've got the Dead Flag Blues. #GodspeedYouBlackEmperor youtu.be/XVekJTmtwqM

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Well, this is some history I've not encountered before. Pre-'48 Israeli militias. youtu.be/gumc074c1AE

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

proximity

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The walls are closing in on #Netanyahu. This week, #Canada, #UK, and #France, promising #sanctions. www.gov.uk/government/n...

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

"In a functioning democracy, public figures and journalists are supposed to be able to criticize the government without fear of retaliation... vital in holding power to account. When authorities start treating political beliefs like security threats, it sends a loud, chilling message..."

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

A judge in Vermont has ordered Tufts University student Rümeysa Öztürk immediately released from ICE detention. Öztürk has been held in a notorious prison in Louisiana. She still faces the threat of deportation, apparently in retaliation for co-authoring a piece for her student newspaper about Gaza.

submitted 30 days ago • 16 comments

This makes 5.

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All #Republican members of House Judiciary committee vote in favour of making U.S. CITIZENS fair game for #deportation — making the word "deportation" mean nothing. www.newsweek.com/republicans-...

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

One of the most shocking things I have read for a while: t.co/lg46ijHLDF

submitted 46 days ago • 2111 comments

Chilling. They are saying that simply taking action in opposition to US foreign policy is grounds for deportation. Think of the proud lineage of protests against US-backed wars, coups, torture... BREAKING: Mahmoud Khalil Can Be Deported, Immigration Judge Rules open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...

submitted 57 days ago • 35 comments

Yep. Tariff war's idiocy digs deep. We're stopping production on EVs in a green energy breadbasket that makes car parts. It's got a greenbelt that exports food. These are EVs we need. Maybe Canadians can buy GM out. thelogic.co/news/gm-elec...

submitted 57 days ago • 1 comment

795 students, as at 11:30 AM, today. #ICE #studentvisas #kakistocracy #authoritarianism #policestate #orangebrickroad

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

In two years, when there are people asking, "how the hell did we get here?", this action will be one of the main intersections on the road. #orangebrickroad #surveillance #snowdenwasright www.npr.org/2025/04/09/g...

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

A machine texted me yesterday. I put in my two cents. "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect." Frank Wilhoit, 2018 crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

This is what the Israelis and their apologists call a targeted, anti-terror campaign. This is Rafah today.

submitted 64 days ago • 270 comments

One of the best reads of the last decade. On Tyrrany by @timothysnyder.bsky.social. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

Every teacher who wants students to have a voice in this world should know these names. #handsoff #elbowsup #humanrights #ICE #rendition time.com/7272060/inte...

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

Aaaand we're here now. @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social, "The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans" #Kakistocracy www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

vm.tiktok.com/ZMBhCaMdB/ The best way that I can set up this clip is this: This was the last time Canada *officially* said, #elbowsup to American antics. We did not support the Iraq War. We're doing it again now. We're saying "no," to whatever the F this is with Trump/Musk/Vance. #Nonmerci

submitted 80 days ago • 1 comment

Another populist called to account for his excesses. #philippines @intlcrimcourt.bsky.social www.rferl.org/a/rodrigo-du...

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

I gasped.

submitted 89 days ago • 50 comments