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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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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 2 hours ago • 28 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 2 hours ago • 356 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 5 hours ago • 79 comments

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

submitted 3 hours ago • 4 comments

Absolutely right.

submitted 2 hours ago • 28 comments

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

submitted 2 hours ago • 25 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 4 hours ago • 2 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 4 hours ago • 6 comments

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

submitted 14 hours 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 13 hours ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 2 days ago • 401 comments

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

submitted 16 hours 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 16 hours ago • 95 comments

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

submitted 16 hours ago • 680 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 14 hours ago • 316 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 • 238 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 15 hours ago • 261 comments

the trump administration is literally coming to steal your children

submitted 15 hours 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 15 hours 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 18 hours 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 18 hours ago • 81 comments

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

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

Protecting and serving fascism since slavery

submitted 17 hours ago • 2 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 19 hours ago • 79 comments

White House vibes today

submitted 19 hours 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 1 day 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 1 day ago • 81 comments

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

submitted 1 day ago • 155 comments

Give the photographer the Pulitzer Prize

submitted 1 day ago • 257 comments

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

submitted 1 day 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 1 day 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 1 day ago • 38 comments

submitted 3 days ago • 61 comments

I don't care if these monstrous ICE raids are a "federal operation". This is authoritarian violence, plain and simple. Just because Stephen Miller has kidnapping quotas for brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't mean we have to think it's okay.

submitted 2 days ago • 883 comments

If you are National Guard or Active Duty military and you are being ordered to violate the constitutional rights of US citizens then this is the number to the GI Rights Hotline. There is support. You don’t have to go through with it. 877-447-4487

submitted 2 days ago • 178 comments

Reminded me of this classic.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments