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Book & History nerd | displaced midwesterner | atheist | wanna be leftist All opinions are something I read somewhere but don’t remember where
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Seeing so many people gleefully celebrating bombs hitting Tel Aviv is gross. I've seen Palestinians massacred for nearly two years by Israeli bombs and munitions. I want it all to stop and people to live safely, not the same thing to happen to Israelis. Don't let war hollow out your soul.

This "ICE is gonna try to kidnap the wrong people sometime and they'll get shot" is some Try That In A Small Town shit for liberals No. You're wishcasting. They're kidnapping gardeners and fruit vendors and unhoused people

The transfer of a sacred site to a copper mine is delayed once again. A federal judge in Phoenix provides a reprieve for Oak Flat. grist.org/indigenous/o... #Climate #Environment #Indigenous #GreenSky #Phoenix #Arizona #OakFlat

Iran will have a nuclear weapon two weeks after Donald Trump reveals his healthcare plan.

Iran is not attacking Israel. Iran is retaliating against attacks by Israel. Iran did not initiate this conflict. Obama had this under control. Bibi and Trump want blood.

It's worth reflecting today on what it took to end legal chattel slavery in the US. And it's worth remembering that the work stoppages of enslaved workers in the south crippled the Confederacy and were the largest and most effective labor action in US history.

Hearing Americans describe Iranians as religious zealots realllllly doesn’t hit when you look at some of the people in our govt

This is increasingly reminding me of the time I shaved off half an eyebrow. It was morning, I was shaving in the shower, I was perhaps sleepy (skeptics may say hung over), and after shaving my face I absent-mindedly started shaving my eyebrow, perhaps because it is also hair on my face? /1

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Public lands are a critical tool in pursuit of environmental justice

this resonates with me a lot.

They don’t believe in any gods and can’t read the Bible. How can they possibly do the morally correct thing?

I can't think of anyone currently running for office more dangerous than Andrew Cuomo. Not just for NYC but for the nation, because unfortunately NYC disproportionately affects the rest of the states. Bad politicians elsewhere don't have the same structural power. NYC: Do not vote for this man.

🧵I think it’s important to understand what disinformation like Sen. Mike Lee’s tweets are trying to do, psychologically/cognitively. In my disinfo class/Substack, I talk about how disinfo often uses “moral disengagement strategies” to manipulate people into accepting harmful conduct 1/

The suspected assassin, Vance Boelter was the CEO a security services group in central Africa and the CEO of Praetorian Guard Security Services based in Minnesota.

The beloved Thiago Avila is home in Brazil after his kidnapping on international waters by the occupation.

I strongly oppose Israel’s attacks against Iran and Iran’s attacks against Israel. Both endanger civilians and risk all-out war. If you’re like my opponents and only condemning one side, I hope you find a spine and some moral clarity.

Exactly. This.

SHUT. IT. DOWN. A senator was dragged out of a press conference for standing up for his constituents and against fascism. Watch how your representatives and senators respond to their own colleague being treated like this. That'll show you how they'll react when it's *you* on the ground.

Love the energy ✊

ICE in Indianapolis. Reported sighting near 65S & Raymond Street, south of downtown, heading west.

When you look at Trump's cratering immigration numbers, remember what Zohran Mamdani was already doing three months ago — while the rest of the Democratic party was still twiddling their thumbs on detaining student protestors and giving ICE more power:

Take a listen and seriously consider it. While this is not an uncommon practice, I am glad people are beginning to speak up about it.

Sorry, Little Marco 👎 www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Texans are protesting peacefully, and Greg Abbott has the National Guard on standby. 
Because nothing scares him more than the people standing up and speaking out. Let me remind y’all: the right to peaceful protest is in the Constitution.

Relatives we need your help to secure Nick Tilsen's freedom and ensure the upcoming evidentiary hearing doesn't go to trial. For information and context, we provide a timeline of events leading up to Nick Tilsen’s evidentiary hearing.

We feed you. They hunt us.

The fight for immigrant justice is a fight for the very survival of the working class – for our families, our communities, our neighbors, our union siblings, and for those people who haven’t yet won the protection of a union. Read our full statement: dsausa.us/6-10-25ICE-Statement

NOW: 500 LA solidarity protesters are trying to March from the Texas Capitol to the local ICE processing center three blocks away and are being blocked by Austin PD.

BREAKING: LA solidarity protesters in Austin are occupying JJ Pickle Federal Building, which houses local ICE processing center

If your response to this video is, “That’s what I voted for”— Fuck you. Fuck you very much. You’re heartless.

I hear the ICE pigs had their tires slashed in Pasadena, then the tow truck service showed up to repair ICE's tires but the crowd convinced the tow truck driver to turn around, so ICE was out there trying to inflate their tires and duct tape them to escape after the hotel asked them to leave.

If governor Newsom and mayor Bass believe that cracking down on protestors harder will save them from further escalation with Trump, they're sorely mistaken. They'll only be doing Trump's bidding for him while sowing massive distrust with their own constituents. Trump will escalate anyways.

I appreciate the simple beauties in life like this (via www.instagram.com/reel/DKqmFuO... )

I had never seen a Waymo until I left on book tour from Missouri and went to San Francisco, LA, and Austin. Until then, I didn’t know they existed! They’re the most godawful things. Folks may be underestimating how much of the country doesn’t know about Waymo and may enjoy seeing them burn.

Greta Thunberg being rich and doing important activism is very good actually. As ever: Khrushchev: You must acknowledge that I come from the working class, while you were born to a family of the bourgeoisie. Zhou: Yes, but we have one thing in common. We have both betrayed our class.

The Madleen crew as they were being attacked by criminals. Israel is a criminal state. If you're still supporting Israel, I hope you can heal the corruption in your soul.

California Protesters throw rocks at ICE

A father screams for his child from a tiny interview room within a basement waiting room inside LA federal building. The space is not a holding area. No food. No water. No diapers. Those initially detained include a 2-year-old US citizen and a woman with high-risk pregnancy.

new on substack

EVERYBODY WATCH. ICE IS OUT OF CONTROL. Video of SEIU California’s President David Huerta getting assaulted & arrested during an ICE raid in the warehouse district of Downtown Los Angeles today. He’s an LA native, American citizen and labor leader. Don’t turn away.

Five years ago last week, unarmed teenager Dorian Murrell was killed by a white vigilante in Indianapolis during George Floyd protests on May 30, 2020. Charged with murder, Tyler Newby was convicted of reckless homicide & sentenced to one year home detention. unicornriot.ninja/2022/tyler-n...

I can't believe any Democrat would THINK of allying with Elon Musk. I won't take money from the guy who does a Hitler salute. It's really that simple.

i know it’s been a good day — but allow me to remind you why it’s actually a great day

Resolution Copper is blocking comments and hiding replies from anyone calling out what they’re doing at Oak Flat. They’re trying to mine on sacred Native American land, with the government’s help, and don’t want the public to push back.