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I'm Muslim with an M.A. in the history of SWANA and East Africa. But I mostly post about lefty things and dungeons and dragons, these days.
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Note the subject-object choice. Who does what? The PROTESTS make people mad about Police Thingy. It’s the protests’ fault. That’s why people are mad. It works on everyone’s subconscious level, I bet, even if you pay attention / have the analysis to see it consciously. Pay attention.

submitted 4 hours ago • 5 comments

Heads up if you live in Seattle, Chicago, Philly, DMV, and NYC. Be careful and know your rights. Protect each other and keep yourself safe

submitted 4 hours ago • 14 comments

Turns out you can control how ICE sleeps at night, this is such a good protest strategy.

submitted 3 hours ago • 10 comments

Met an active duty member of the military yesterday who filed conscientious objector paperwork in response to deployment of military on U.S. soil. Was told multiple Army have filed, unknown quantities in other branches.

submitted 2 hours ago • 131 comments

The fact that the State Department is planning to open an Office of Remigration didn't get even anywhere close to the attention it deserved. Remigration is explicitly a European far-right/neo-Nazi word that in Europe refers quite explicitly to ethnic cleansing beyond simply immigration enforcement.

submitted 15 hours ago • 34 comments

We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.

submitted 15 hours ago • 526 comments

“This could poll well with midterm swing voters in Ohio” I remark sagely as I watch a fourth grader get bundled into an unmarked van at recess by armed and masked agents of the state.

submitted 19 hours ago • 124 comments

This is a really important science and public health story. 🧪 www.theguardian.com/fashion/2025...

submitted 16 hours ago • 5 comments

Absolutely right.

submitted 16 hours ago • 54 comments

They're all in a group chat coordinating their propaganda.

submitted 16 hours ago • 30 comments

Voyager was launched in the 70s and only left our solar system in 2012. We're not gonna be colonising jack shit in the 2030s. The nearest star system is 4 light years away. Voyager hasn't even travelled a "light day". We don't have to parrot top execs talking points when they're demonstrably false

submitted 17 hours ago • 4 comments

The nearest star, Proxima Centauri, is 4.24 light years away, so we'll need to develop light-speed travel, build a ship that can self-sustain for multiple years and set off by about September.

submitted 18 hours ago • 10 comments

CNN captures LAPD forming a line before charging at protesters and firing at them

submitted 1 day ago • 25 comments

100% The one and only good thing about this country is the variety of people that call it their home. Every manifestation of this that I can think of is pretty great. And aside from the land it's built on, there's not much else to recommend it.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

it really doesn’t matter if someone is in america illegally or not. who cares, grow up

submitted 2 days ago • 405 comments

That's the current owner of The Atlantic on the left.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

something I find frustrating at times is how many folks, on here or elsewhere, are willing to write people off who are pretty clearly on the same side because of one bad take they can definitely add up to the point that it’s worth writing people off but imo too many people set the bar too low

submitted 1 day ago • 100 comments

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

submitted 1 day ago • 707 comments

why is the president the only person testing the limits of his power? everyone should see what they can get away with. what if zookeepers gave helicopters to gorillas? nobody has tried this

submitted 1 day ago • 380 comments

At no point in this entire article of 16 paragraphs does ABC mention that another cop killed this cop by shooting her in the back. Nor does it mention the name of the cop who killed this cop. Nor does it mention that the civilians involved never fired at them. ABC might as well be state media.

submitted 1 day ago • 244 comments

A lot of us have made the point more generally that violence abroad comes home, and now "imperial boomerang" seems to be a popularly-known term. But it's worth specifically pointing out, as this person does, that violence against reporters has never been so normalized thanks to the israelis

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

the fact that people were told “today you are going to an elementary school to lie to teachers and kidnap kids” and didn’t immediately tell their bosses to go fuck themselves is all you need to know about why ICE should be dismantled

submitted 1 day ago • 273 comments

the trump administration is literally coming to steal your children

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

This documentary just said a river runs for 100km as though that should be impressive and I couldn't help but smirk.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

This talking point needs to die. This is not a thousands of years old conflict. It's a less than 100 year old dispossession and ethnic cleansing. The Nakba was 1948. Netanyahu gained power in 1996. This is not an ancient conflict. It's a colonial one.

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

BREAKING: A fourth court has found that President Trump's invocation of the Alien Enemies Act was illegal, seeking to stretch the meaning of "invasion" beyond its plain meaning. The ruling blocks AEA deportations in the Western District of Texas. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 1 day ago • 81 comments

"shoot and cry" learned from their genocidal israeli trainers popularresistance.org/minnesota-co...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Protecting and serving fascism since slavery

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

sending 500 marines to a county of nearly 10 million people to stand around holding their dicks with nowhere to sleep is not actually the sign of a successful declaration of martial law

submitted 1 day ago • 79 comments

White House vibes today

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

What right exactly does Israel have to detain civilians sailing in international waters who have not launched any attack on Israel?

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

you feel like a big man, shooting an unarmed woman from behind? you fucking dickless cur. i hope you drown in your own piss.

submitted 2 days ago • 81 comments

Them: “LA is a full on insurrection” Us at the protest:

submitted 2 days ago • 157 comments

Give the photographer the Pulitzer Prize

submitted 2 days ago • 257 comments

full blown police riot in progress. never let them reframe this.

submitted 2 days ago • 31 comments

I would like my friends and I to have 6 months where we have minimal responsibilities, so we can hang out the way we did in college.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

protect your eyes, protect your head. "less lethal" munitions are lethal when fired directly at a human being and cops love to use them this way. pepperballs will take your eye out, a tear gas canister can fracture your skull. cops will kill you on purpose and by accident, all with impunity.

submitted 2 days ago • 37 comments