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Here's a picture of someone being pulled off the street in broad daylight during the rule of the Argentine junta. If you do it in public, during the day, it's because you want people to see

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Expect masked vigilantes to see this as their opportunity to abduct anyone they don’t like the look of. It’s so terrifying. Please—people of color and people of conscience, don’t go anywhere alone. We’re the only ones who will keep us safe. (I don’t think I’m overreacting here, ymmv.)

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

Running list of academics/students targeted by the Administration (does not include the broader detention/disappearance of people across the country).

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TGIT: New music from Tortoise (from an upcoming release on @intlanthem.bsky.social !) accompanied by a really beautiful animation by Rob Shaw. Yes, there will be music in the dark times...

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Gov. JB Pritzker on Friday signed a law restoring Shabbona State Park, which covers about 1,500 acres in DeKalb County, to the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation.

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They fucking disappeared Hamdan Ballal. Sheer impunity, knowing the US isn't going to say shit. "As he was being treated in an ambulance, soldiers detained him and a second Palestinian man, the [Center for Jewish Nonviolence] said. It said his whereabouts were now unknown."

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

Can a federal official make a request to the Justice Department for her own arrest?

submitted 3 days ago • 79 comments

Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on the Houthis in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. Their incompetence and lack of intelligence is astounding. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 3 days ago • 27 comments

For all of you media folks who keep calling and asking me why there is no Resistance2.0–also, definitely give Erica and @djpressman.bsky.social a follow! FYI @amywestervelt.bsky.social

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

i hope everyone who was tepid in their support for mahmoud khalil feels like a giant asshole

submitted 7 days ago • 42 comments

SCOOP: Hooded ICE agents snatched Indian-born Georgetown postdoc Badar Suri from Rosslyn street Monday, per court filing. Like Khalil, linked to pro-Palestinian views & Rubio 'foreign policy' power, lawyer says. Then whisked to Louisiana. w/ @kyledcheney www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

submitted 7 days ago • 225 comments

Durbin's response to my letter: "At some point, what Mr. Musk and DOGE are doing to undermine important federal agencies and programs will come to light, and they will be held accountable." AT SOME POINT FFS.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

This is NOT deportation, it's definitionally extraordinary rendition. Why is the press not calling it what it is?

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From a source: “Just had a co-presenter for a buildings research conference bow out. She’s a dual citizen and the FBI came knocking to ask her about her involvement in coauthoring chunks of the Paris Agreement. Climate science is being literally (and I mean literally) criminalized.”

submitted 9 days ago • 191 comments

"“White Terror,” a quasi-documentary glorifying more than 100 white murderers and terrorists... the video starts with the man who assassinated Martin Luther King Jr... and concludes with the young man who shot and killed 10 Black shoppers in a Buffalo supermarket in 2022." JFC.

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NEW: National Park Service staff have received talking points ordering them to describe layoffs as “workforce management actions” and to reassure visitors that changes resulting from the cuts won’t impede “memorable and meaningful experiences for all.” By @anjeanette-damon.bsky.social

submitted 13 days ago • 70 comments

For Jewish Currents, I'm working on a piece about international students and gc holders being targeted by ICE/DOS for pro-palestinian activism. Please contact me on signal if this is you or someone you know/represent: I'm at tanvim.05

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Threw together a quick shirt on Threadless... all artist proceeds go to the Center for Constitutional Rights (one of the legal teams representing Khalil). ryangriffis.threadless.com/designs/free...

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how did ICE know where to find Mahmoud Khalil, and who will they go after next? I wrote about the vast surveillance network that powers ICE arrests, and the Zionist groups making deportation wishlists for the agency: www.theverge.com/policy/62718...

submitted 17 days ago • 42 comments

@duckworth.senate.gov @ramirez.house.gov Please help #FreeMahmoudKhalil and ensure we don't go further down the road of political disappearances

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortex condemned ICE’s detainment of Mahmoud Khalil, calling it a “tyrannical” move. “If the federal government can disappear a legal US permanent resident without reason or warrant, then they can disappear US citizens too."

submitted 17 days ago • 122 comments

Demand the Immediate Release of Palestinian Student Activist #MahmoudKhalil from DHS detention

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The United States government just disappeared a lawful US resident because it didn't like his speech. You should care about this because it shouldn't happen to anyone, but you should also care because it could happen to you. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/n...

submitted 18 days ago • 41 comments

Becky Burke of Book Island (a picture book publisher in the UK founded by my fellow Tokarczuk translator Greet Pauwelijn) was "detained" by ICE at the Canadian border on 2/28. Her father asked that her story be shared in case someone can help her. He writes:

submitted 18 days ago • 204 comments

Picture a coalition of people refusing fascism. Inspired by Gregg Bordowitz's 1987 essay "Picture a Coalition" about pre-figurative activist work for collective survival in the early years of the AIDS crisis.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Facebook is blocking readers from sharing The Nerd Reich newsletter. I assumed this was a simple error rather than nefarious censorship. But Meta support says my newsletter might be blocked because it "addresses topics like the 'Network State' concept and critiques of tech industry figures." 👀

submitted 18 days ago • 65 comments

NEW SCOOP: Some staffers at Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency are drawing robust taxpayer-funded salaries from the federal agencies they are slashing and burning, WIRED has learned. ⬇️ Here's how much they're making:

submitted 23 days ago • 120 comments

Shows up! Featuring @annamerlan.bsky.social, @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social, and @yarotrof.bsky.social: www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

submitted 26 days ago • 4 comments

That "deferred resignation" email from DOGE/OPM states "The federal workforce should be comprised of employees who are reliable, loyal, trustworthy, and who strive for excellence..." in other words, the opposite of those leading this administration.

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

Make a huge mistake. Then make a false claim about how you fixed it. They did it for PEPFAR. Now Ebola. I follow this particular topic VERY closely, so here's what really happened and why this isn't true AT ALL...🧵

submitted 29 days ago • 214 comments

So. This editorial is clear: those of us who are free to do so, must speak out. It's always true; but I had not thought to have to do it, to this extent, for the US. Thank you to everyone who shares their story with us. We will keep working, we're with you. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

I wrote about the firing of Rachel Dawson for the Chronicle. www.chronicle.com/article/anat...

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

Quick collective web-mapping exercise of Lincoln Sq. Mall (Urbana, IL) as urban ecology w/ my Space-Time-Art seminar. Following reading Mike Davis' "Dead Cities" chapter (from the book of the same name) and an excerpt of the great graphic novel "BTTM FDRS" (by Ezra Claytan Daniels & Ben Passmore)

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Good for Gov. Janet Mills! She is a former AG who knows the law, unlike a self-appointed "King" who claims he is the law

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So much for the "Independent" in Independent Lens, eh @pbs.org ? What happened to the Map of Gender Diverse Cultures?

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

The great Dave Zirin delivers some much needed tough love: "Maybe if Democratic leaders pretended Elon Musk was a 22-year-old Palestinian from Dearborn, Michigan, they’d show more fight."

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

"Bog ecosystems... cover just 3% of the Earth’s surface, yet hold up to 30% of global carbon. Wisconsin has lost half of its wetlands. In Illinois, more than 90% of wetlands have been lost. ... in the United States... nearly 70% have been drained and developed over the past 100 years."

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@propublica.org + The Texas Tribune reporting on the Trump Admin's use of Guantanamo to imprison migrants, whether they have criminal records or not.

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The lead prosecutor on the Adams investigation - Hagan Scotten - resigns from SDNY. “I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion [to dismiss Adams charges]. But it was never going to me.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 41 days ago • 239 comments

Non-doomscroll post: Andy Moor (of The Ex and Dog Faced Hermans) has remixed a track from one of my favorites records of the last year: Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti & Frank Rosaly's "Mestizx" (on @intlanthem.bsky.social)!!! I needed this today... Check it out on Bandcamp.

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

I am probably on some government lists now but at least I am in good company.

submitted 42 days ago • 114 comments

The biggest US bank, which has financed nearly $400 billion in fossil-fuel projects since the Paris Agreement, launches an important and credible climate advisory note for clients, who apparently have been clamoring for such a thing. 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 42 days ago • 11 comments